Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As part of emerge -DuN system portage appears to first make me remove
>>>>> python by hand. Is this safe?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No!  Not until you get a working version installed.  Portage needs
>>>> python.
>>>>  Someone correct me if I misstep here:
>>>>
>>>> emerge the new python, run the python updater and let it emerge whatever
>>>> packages it needs to rebuild, check to make sure nothing still needs the
>>>> old
>>>> version and then you can unmerge the old one.
>>>>
>>>> I think that is the correct way.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is.  *Only* unmerge the old Python after you emerged the new one *and*
>>> ran python-updater.
>>>
>>> Unmerging Python without first emerging the new version is equivalent to
>>> sawing off the branch you are sitting on.  You could as well unmerge
>>> portage
>>> itself and wonder where portage went and why you can't emerge.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. That is sort of what I thought but I felt it best to ask
>> first. It seems I have python oriented things in my world file that
>> I'm not clear need to be there. One is python-updater. I'll emerge
>> python first and then return to look at how emerge -DuN world would
>> proceed.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>
> Not quite there yet.  After you emerge the new python, run the python
> updater and let it update/re-emerge whatever it needs to.  You really need
> to run the updater tool.  It looks for packages that will still depend on
> the old python and rebuild them so they will work with the new one.
>
> If you emerge the new python and unmerge the old python, some things may not
> work, including portage.
>
> After you get that sorted out, then you can do the other updates.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

It's almost exactly the question I Came back to ask. Thanks.

I finished the python emerge and saw the message about running
python-updater. Before doing that I tried the emerge -pvDuN
python-updater and saw it still wanted me to remove the old python. I
am running python-updater (the old version) now. After that's done
it's then OK for me to emerge -C the older version of python by hand
and proceed with the emerge -DuN python-updater operation?

I am getting messages about packages now being masked, such as:

 * Adding to list: =games-board/pysol-sound-server-3.01
 * Adding to list: =dev-tcltk/snack-2.2.10

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-python/pygtk-2.12.0-r1" have
been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-python/pygtk-2.12.0-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

dragonfly ~ # eix -I pygtk
[D] dev-python/pygtk
     Available versions:  (2)  2.10.6 2.12.0 ~2.12.0-r1 ~2.12.1 ~2.12.1-r2
	{X doc examples opengl}
     Installed versions:  2.12.0-r1(2)["proaudio"
/usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio](19:14:20 01/01/08)(opengl -doc
-examples)
     Homepage:            http://www.pygtk.org/
     Description:         GTK+2 bindings for Python


Do I need to unmask these things by hand to make forward progress?
(Either that or do an emerge -C to remove them and then let an emerge
-DuN world/revdep-rebuild catch them...) It seems strange to me that
an emerge -DuN system operation is leading me to do things that don't
have anything to do with the system. I'm pretty sure that package is
used for a game and just getting caught in this general python-updater
process.

Thanks,
Mark